Not Cool At All.

[flomaster]

my computer took a dump on me and I lost everything .... I can't rememeber my exact user name b/c it was some thing funky and wouldn't let me use the one I always use and the password is funky too... not a happy camper.. basically I need to find out what my user name and password are... although I try and email total choice but it wants me to log in Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...

 

maybe some one can help me please.

 

 

-=Jason=-

[KevinW]

I can't help you with your password, although someone at TCH ademin I'm sure can do something for you. But it does provide a good "warning" to all to either maintain a printed list of userids and passwords that can stored away in a lockbox or filing cabinet -or- do regular backs up.

 

<ON SOAPBOX>

Back in the days of DOS, a complete application, like Wordperfect 5.1, could easily fit on a single diskette. Now days, we have computers with 80GB of disk space. Software comes on multiple CD's or (DVD's) - we are accumulating more, saving more, connecting more - and relying more - on our computers.

 

Isn't it about time that if the data we maintain on our PC's is so valuable to us that we cannot afford to lose it, that people start investing in reliable data backup measures? Now, I do computer work for a living, so I have a server at home, along with 5 computers, and I run a tape backup every night. And not just a backup of data that has changed - but a full backup - every night.

 

But even home users could go online to EBay and purchase a reliable DDS tape drive and run regular backs uof their systems. I saqy tape backup, only because I personally still do not think that CD/DVD backups should constitute a first level backup. I don't mind using them as a secondary backup of specific data files - but not a full backup of a system.

<OFF SOAPBOX>

 

-kw

[TCH-Rick]

Send me a PM or email with your name, domain name, and email address and we can get you fixed up.